Interventional Radiology

Focusing on diagnostic imaging and interventional abdominal/visceral procedures, this session will discuss the nuances in code choices for a full range of services, including visceral component coding, aortic endograft procedures, with guidance on when each code is appropriate to use, and how those code choices can change based on how the procedure is performed.

Covering a full range of biliary and gastrointestinal procedures, this in-depth session breaks down diagnostic and therapeutic services–detailing the procedures and the CPT^® codes that go with them while offering in-depth insights, guidance, and instruction so you can come away confident when coding for these complex, and often error prone, services.

Covering pain management IR procedures, this session will discuss the differences and nuances in code choices for a wide range of procedures including vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, sacroplasty, epidural steroid injections and blood patches, facet joint injections, neurolytic destruction and more; with guidance on when each code option is appropriate to use, documentation requirements and common areas of noncompliance.  The 4 new 2023 C codes created by CMS for ASCs, why they were created and who should or should not use them, will also be discussed.